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smell the roses
i am home today with some kind of throat infection. ive managed to go all year with no major illness, including a trip to the US when it was in the grip of flu fever (with no tamiflu injection because...
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this one time…
every couple of years the nsw knitters guild, of which i am a member, holds a ‘camp’. knit camps around the world are totes A Thing and knitters who get to go to them love them. they are generally the...
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wishful thinking
i wish i was back at knitcamp. i wish life was one big knit camp. it is most inconsiderate of kristy to fly to the US to see family and not be here organising knit camp every weekend. you know that...
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pressure and release
once upon a time, my dog possum and i used to go out to the country rounding up sheep. it really was a fantastic experience, for me and for her, and i learnt pretty much everything i know about dogs...
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exhale
its a little hard to breath here right now. i just went outside and took this rather frightening photo from my back porch this is the view over my back fence right now. its getting darker by the...
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settling in
it’s funny how you dont realise how stressed you are until that stress is lifted. the last week i’ve felt it slowly start to shift, can feel myself breathing easier, less anxious, less bothered by the...
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purple patch
it’s the end of the formal academic year (that is, for teaching purposes) and it’s been a bit crazy. i’ve pretty much just been going from one task on my list to the next and trying not to think too...
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fifteen seconds
can someone tell me why its so important that ALL THE THINGS get done before christmas in australian universities? all universities? all workplaces? seriously, we are all killing ourselves from working...
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threes
for the last three weeks i have had the three dogs here. for those who dont already know, i share custody of the dogs with my ex, and he and his new partner have been travelling in india. it’s been so...
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not frufru
it seems fitting that today is the first official day of the annual leave you have when you’re not really having annual leave, and i finally have a finished knitted object. how long has it been? ah,...
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hand made
so here we are on the other side of a long weekend, designed to celebrate ‘australia day’. i have nothing good to say about that particular celebration, so i’m just going to move along. the good thing...
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normal everyday life
its been a bit up and down here, and i havent felt much like blogging. in the scheme of things of course everything is fine – its just little things. i guess it cant be all sunshine and light all the...
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tunnels and triangles
i am annoyed at myself for my whiny last post. seriously, a crushed bumper bar and some anxiety about travelling and i want to feel sorry for myself. please. i dropped the subaru off this morning for...
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decisions
looks like its a big week for people making life changing decisions all round. after all that back and forth last week between me and landlady and mortgage brokers and real estate agents, at first...
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stress and angst
its a well known fact that moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do. i think its stressful even under the best circumstances, where you make the decision of your own accord and have...
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rollercoaster
someone said today on twitter that this week has been like a rollercoaster ride for me, and that is exactly how i feel! firstly this happened which made me think that the early offer made on the house...
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on edges
it’s sunday morning. there are no cars rushing down my street. the dogs are outside doing whatever it is dogs do. birds are making those little chirping noises they make. there are no people talking....
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betterer
time is doing its thing and i am feeling a bit better. i say that with caveats, because i still feel like something very profound and deep has shifted and i am not quite the same person as i was 6...
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winding down
in less than two weeks i will be officially on leave, and at the end of my academic year. this is the end of my first full year as a permanent academic, and my third time running my subject (it runs...
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out of hibernation
so i have conducted a participant observation study and i can report, scientifically, why bears hibernate. because it’s freaking cold. and cold is tiring. and i dont mean just cold, i mean all the...
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